Infant Feeding Bottles and Teats Patents: Leaders & Trends 2026
Infant Feeding Bottles and Teats Patents: Who Files, and Where the Field Is Still Open
Concentrated but not locked up. the top 5 assignees hold 22.3% of all 969 records in scope, and the top 10 hold 31.0% — leaving most of the field to single- and low-count filers. Annual filings rose to a peak of 60 in 2018, then declined; the evidence-backed comparison of 2021 (47) to 2024 (18) shows a -62% drop over that span. Treat 2025 and 2026 figures as provisional — publication typically lags filing by around 18 months, so recent years will fill in as more records publish.
- 1KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS NV10.3%
- 2MAYBORN (UK) LIMITED4.5%
- 3MEDIMMUNE LLC3.0%
- 4SEPAL IP PTY LTD2.6%
- 5TAYLORED CONCEPTS LLC1.9%
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- The complete ranking, not just the top five
- Every IPC branch with its share of the corpus
- The most-cited records, and where claim space is still thin
Common questions about this landscape
Who holds the most patents on infant feeding bottles and teats?
The dataset ranks 100 assignees by record count, with a single leader holding 100 records, clearly ahead of the fifth-ranked assignee at 18. The top 5 assignees together account for 22.3% of the 969 records in scope, and the top 10 account for 31.0%, meaning the majority of filings come from companies outside this ranked group. This points to a field with one clear leader but a long tail of smaller filers rather than a tightly controlled oligopoly.
Is the number of feeding bottle and teat patents growing or shrinking?
Filing activity peaked in 2018 at 60 records and has declined since. The most reliable recent comparison — 2021 at 47 records versus 2024 at 18 records, a -62% change — shows a genuine slowdown rather than a temporary dip, since 2024 is treated as the last complete filing year. Figures for 2025 and 2026 will rise as publications catch up, given the roughly 18-month lag between filing and publication, so it is too early to read those years as a continuation of the decline.
What technology areas do feeding bottle and teat patents cover?
The overwhelming majority sit under A61J, containers for medicine, which covers 52.7% of the 969 records in scope. Smaller but notable shares fall under A61M devices for body fluids (7.0%), B65D containers and packaging (5.9%), and A47J kitchen utensils (5.7%), with diagnostic, microorganism and food-composition classes each below 5%. Because a single record can carry multiple IPC classes, these percentages add up to more than 100%.
Disclaimer. This analysis is based on Patsnap Eureka data drawn from a limited snapshot of global patent records and is provided for general information and reference only. Patent data carries inherent limitations — recent filings are under-counted because of publication lag, counts may be on a record or family basis, classification and applicant-name data may contain errors or duplicates, and the underlying search query defines the scope shown — so the analysis may be incomplete or inaccurate and may not reflect the full technology landscape.
Nothing here is an exhaustive prior-art, novelty, freedom-to-operate or validity search, nor does it constitute legal, financial or professional advice, and it should not be relied upon as such. Verify independently and review with qualified patent and legal professionals before acting on it.
Method: Filing trend and technology composition. Derived from a Patsnap search on Infant Feeding Bottles and Teats covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-07-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish. Every share divides by all records in scope. Data: Patsnap Eureka. See the full landscape report.